Sir… I’m still a virgin… I’ve never been with any man in my life…”
A 25-year-old girl was saying this through tears inside a hotel room—
standing before the man she had chosen herself.
But an even bigger shock awaited her just five minutes later…
Her name was Meera, 25 years old, clutching her purse tightly, trembling outside Room 806 of the city’s tallest hotel.
She had spent an entire year getting to know that man—Ajay, 38 years old, successful, calm, decent…
or at least that’s what she believed.
They met through work.
Ajay never pressured her, never made any vulgar moves.
He simply cared, asked questions, understood her slowly—
and that made Meera feel that he was the man she wanted to open her heart to for the first time.
That night, she herself texted him:
“I want to be alone with you tonight… if you want that too.”
Ajay agreed instantly—so quickly that Meera hesitated for a moment.
But she convinced herself.
She wanted this.
She had decided.
Five minutes earlier…
Meera sat on the chair in the room, her fingers tightly interlocked.
Her heart was beating so fast it felt like it would burst out of her chest.
Ajay came closer and gently asked:
— “Are you scared?”
Meera nodded, trying to keep her voice steady:
— “Sir… I’m still a virgin. I’ve never done anything with anyone before. I’m scared… that I won’t know anything.”
Ajay froze.
He didn’t smile,
didn’t tease her,
didn’t hug her—
the way Meera thought he might.
He just… stared.
For a long time.
There was a strange expression on his face.
Not surprise,
not happiness.
Meera frowned:
— “Why are you looking at me like that?”
Ajay said a sentence that sent a chill down Meera’s spine:
— “Good. Now I am absolutely sure.”
Meera panicked.
Just as she was about to ask something, Ajay walked to the small trolley bag he had brought with him, pressed the passcode, and opened it.
And Meera’s eyes widened in shock.
What was inside…
was nothing like personal belongings.
Ajay slowly pulled something out of the suitcase.
Not clothes.
Not a laptop.
Not even toiletries.
It was a thick brown folder.
Under it were several smaller envelopes, a digital camera, and what looked disturbingly like printed photographs.
Meera’s throat tightened.
— “What… what is all that?”
Ajay didn’t answer immediately.
Instead, he calmly placed the folder on the table and opened it.
The first thing Meera saw made her blood run cold.
A photograph.
Of her.
Walking out of her apartment building two weeks earlier.
Another photo.
Her sitting at a café with her coworker.
Another.
Her buying medicine at a pharmacy.
And then another.
Her standing outside her mother’s house.
Meera staggered backward.
— “W-what is this…?”
Ajay finally looked at her.
His face no longer carried the gentle warmth she had trusted for an entire year.
Now he looked… cold.
Calculated.
Like a stranger wearing Ajay’s face.
— “I needed to be sure,” he said quietly.
— “Sure of WHAT?!”
He slid another paper toward her.
A hospital record.
Her hospital record.
Meera’s eyes widened.
Her hands began shaking uncontrollably.
— “How did you get this?”
Ajay leaned back calmly.
— “You’d be surprised how easy it is when you know the right people.”
Meera felt nausea rise in her stomach.
The room suddenly felt smaller.
The air heavier.
— “You investigated me?”
— “For eleven months.”
That answer hit harder than a slap.
Eleven months.
Almost the entire time she had known him.
Every dinner.
Every thoughtful conversation.
Every comforting message.
Every ride home after work.
Every “good morning” text.
Everything had been part of something else.
Something she didn’t understand.
Meera’s voice cracked.
— “Why?”
Ajay stared at her for several seconds before answering.
— “Because I was looking for someone exactly like you.”
A terrible silence filled the room.
Meera slowly stepped toward the door.
Ajay noticed immediately.
— “Relax. If I wanted to hurt you, I wouldn’t have waited this long.”
But that didn’t calm her.
Not even slightly.
Her fingers quietly reached for her phone inside her purse.
Ajay noticed that too.
And then he said something that made her freeze completely.
— “Your brother Rohan finishes work at 10:30, right?”
Meera stopped breathing.
Ajay continued softly:
— “And your mother’s blood pressure medication gets delivered every second Thursday.”
Her phone slipped from her trembling fingers onto the carpet.
Ajay knew.